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For the store nearest you, contact: Paul Sullivan Sportswear, 51 Osgood Sl, Methuen, MA 01844 (617) 688-1076 Dorris, whose father was a member of the Modoc tribe from Oregon, the pro- gram was academically respectable vir- tually from its inception. The problem of how to attract and prepare Indian students remained-even now there are only about forty-five Indians at Dart- mouth, and some of those are from non-tribal backgrounds-but by the middle seventies the Indian dropout rate was beginning to resemble the general dropout rate. Dartmouth was graduating almost as many Indians ev- ery year as it had graduated in its first two centuries. To some peo- ple involved in the Indian program, it seemed reason- able to assume that it would be only a matter of time be- fore the connection between Dartmouth and Indians in the public mind would rest on the college's substantive achieve- ments in Indian education-offering a superior education to an increasing number of Indians, servIng as a center for IndIan speakers and Indian cultural events, offering a nationally recognized Native American Studies curriculum that attracted mainly non-Indian stu- dents-instead of on arguments over a football cheer But the arguments over the football cheer would not go away. Efforts to discourage the use of the Indian symbol turned out to be, in the words of one alumnus who considered the efforts absurd, "a little bit like en- forcing Prohibition.)) The letters to the alumni magazine never really stopped. Around the cam- pus, display of the symbol by under- graduates would seem to diminish for a while, and then flare up again. By 1 975, there were columns and edi- torials in the Dartmouth, the campus newspaper, about a resurgence of the symbol-particularly in the form of a cheer, traditionally chanted after the band played "As the Backs Go Tearing By," which goes, "Dartmouth Indians! I-N-D-]-A-N-S! Dartmouth Indians! Scalp 'em!" The cheer be- came so common on campus during the football season that some Indian students-who, under the year-round system, had the right to select which terms to use for vacation-made it a point not to be in Hanover during the fall. In a 1 977 editorial that conclud- ed, "The Indian symbol, approved or unapproved, may be here to stay," the Dartmouth said, "To complicate mat- ters, a stand on the Indian symbol has come to imply a stand on vari- ous other campus issues ranging from coeducation to affirmative action.... Anyone uSIng the Indian cheer is au- MA.Y 7 , 1 979 tomatically identified with a group holding certain values, while anyone wishing to be identified with those values wi!] use the Indian cheer." In other words, students as well as alumni had begun interpreting use of the sym- bol as a symbol-a symbol of the col- lege spirit traditionally treasured at Dartmouth or simply a symbol of de- fying authority. The Indian students never inter- preted it that way. They considered the chanting of an Indian cheer or the wearing of an Indian-head jacket an act of pure malice-a reflec- tion of the in<;ensitivity and even contempt that the con- ventional Dartmouth under- graduate had for anyone who was not a white j\.nglo-Sax- on Protestant male. Non- Indian students told the In- dians they were making too much of what was essentially a trivial matter. "If it's trivial to them and it hurts us," the Indians replied, "why do they keep doing it?" Indian students sim- ply hated the Indian symbol. They hated having their existence at Dart- mouth dominated by it. They hated having to explain constantly why it offended them. They hated being con- sIdered humorless and hypersensitive because they objected to it. Some In- dians at Dartmouth continued to have complaints and misgivings that had nothing to do with "Scalp 'em" cheers, but for a lot of them Dartmouth was a remarkable, transforming experlence- "a dream school," one of them said. not long ago, "except for the symbol." Indian students saw the symbol as sym- bolizing nothing except Dartmouth's true feelings a bout the people it pro- fessed to be helping. "I can just see all of them sitting in the back when we go to a Senate hearing someday," an Indian who spent four years at Dart- mouth said not long ago. "\Ve're ask- ing for some serious help for the tnbe or something, and they're sitting in the back thinking, 'Well, wah-hoo- wah.' " As a matter of policy, Indian stu- dents and their supporters appeared be- fore any student organization that wanted to hear their side of the con- troversy. Gregory Pnnce, a dean who was involved with the Native Ameri- can Program from the start, eventual- ly took the position that arguments about the symbol dId not constitute an irritating digression but amounted to "as easy a way to get to the heart of liberal-arts education as anything you can think of "-a way, for instance, to discuss the search for tnlth beyond